Stories tagged "customerabuse"

"Intel’s crimes, however, are better characterised using the Vista collusion, which is the most recent and thus freshest example of a pattern that went on for many years"

"Corporations must not taint public institutions like academia, but they increasingly do. Microsoft is a major culprit in that respect"

"Observers have warned for quite a long time that not only will OOXML lead to confusion, legal problems and corruption of the process but it will also lead to eternal incompatibilities"

"Microsoft will leave them unpatched unless or until there is an attack exploiting them, i.e. when it’s too late. It is not only vain but it’s also irresponsible. It also enables Microsoft to ‘massage’ and lie about security using meaningless figu

"The agenda is disguised under more inviting terms like “open source”, which it is not"

"It’s a known fact that those who are not able to move forward are gradually falling behind. They sometimes don’t even realise it. Sometimes they enter a stage of denial or they try to swallow the ocean of change"

"Anyone who tries to connect an older Apple Cinema Display to the MacBook to view an iTunes movie on a larger screen will see the message: "This movie cannot be played because a display that is not authorized to play protected movies is connected""

"This latest decision which is made in retrospect may be — as one must remember — carried out by an ISO that is already occupied by self-serving cronies who perfume their own sins and hope for history to dissolve gracefully, then be rewritten"

"If Microsoft engages with countries as though it’s the Secret Services and then refuses to tell what was signed, perhaps it’s time to call the Secret Services and have them crack down on crooked politicians and the company/ies they engage with"

"Windows is not the only Microsoft product that suffers from poor quality assurance. As pointed out before, XBox360 provides an example of almost-criminal negligence that may have already led to deaths"